The Septuagint south of Alexandria: essays on the Greek translations and other ancient versions by the Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa (LXXSA)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Part 1 Historical Context of the Septuagint -- Chapter 1 The Septuagint South of Alexandria-in Antiquity -- Chapter 2 The Historical Context of the lxx and Its Hebrew Vorlage -- Chapter 3 Platonism and Judaism: Ha...
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Part 1 Historical Context of the Septuagint -- Chapter 1 The Septuagint South of Alexandria-in Antiquity -- Chapter 2 The Historical Context of the lxx and Its Hebrew Vorlage -- Chapter 3 Platonism and Judaism: Have They Ever Met? Reflections on Biblical Creation Stories -- Chapter 4 Euripides' Ion and 1 Samuel 1: Tradition-Historical and Cultural Critical Remarks -- Part 2 Narrative Books of the Septuagint -- Chapter 5 The Man Who Would Be King: Reading Haman's Edict (lxx Esther Addition B) through the Lens of Social Identity Theory -- Chapter 6 Virtue, Asceticism, and the Masculinized Woman: Judith in Early Christian Greek and Latin Interpretations from the Second to the Fifth Century ce -- Chapter 7 A Greimassian Analysis of the Function of the Fundamental Values in the Story of Daniel and the Priests of Bel in the lxx Additions to Daniel -- Part 3 Wisdom Books of the Septuagint -- Chapter 8 De (Pro)verb(i)is Raris: The Greek Rendering of Hebrew Absolute Hapax Legomena in lxx Proverbs -- Chapter 9 Wise and All-Surpassing Kings: Two Shared Themes in lxx Ecclesiastes 1:16 and the Standard Babylonian Version of the Gilgameš Epic -- Chapter 10 Atonement and Forgiveness in (the Book of) Sirach: A Survey on the Usage of ἐξιλάσκομαι/ἐξιλασμός -- Part 4 Anthropology and Theology -- Chapter 11 Anthropology in the Greek Psalter -- Chapter 12 Divine Distinctiveness in Greek Exodus (With Special Focus on the Plague Narrative) -- Chapter 13 Who and What Is a Hebrew Deity? Reflecting on Certain Hebrew and Greek Self-Declarations and Expressions -- Chapter 14 "Joint Human-Angelic Praise" in Old Greek Daniel and 4QSabbah Shirot: Early Evidence of Merkebah Mysticism?. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (505 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9004521380 |